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    • South Asian Muslim Americans as Model Minorities: Conflicted Identities in Mohsin Hamid and Ayad Akhtar 

      Zafar, Sonia (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)
      This thesis argues that Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced portray the struggles of South Asian Muslims in light of the model minority myth. The protagonists’ struggles for assimilation ...
    • Sovereign Credit Risk Analysis for Selected Asian and European Countries 

      Zhang, Min (University of Waterloo, 2013-05-21)
      We analyze the nature of sovereign credit risk for selected Asian and European countries through a set of sovereign CDS data for an eighty-year period that includes the episode of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Our ...
    • Sovereignty Sensitivity and Diaspora Discontent: Domestic Influences on Canadian Foreign Policy Decision Making in the Kosovo War 

      Recaj, Krenare (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)
      In 1999, Canada participated in NATO’s Operation Allied Force, a 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia meant to end the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians. Officially, Canada’s interests in developing its foreign ...
    • Soy-Polypropylene Biocomposites for Automotive Applications 

      Guettler, Barbara Elisabeth (University of Waterloo, 2009-05-20)
      For the automotive sector, plastics play the most important role when designing interior and exterior parts for cars. Currently, most parts are made from petroleum-based plastics but alternatives are needed to replace ...
    • Soziokulturelle Theorie und Selbstdarstellung von Lernenden in einem interaktiven online L2 Lernkontext 

      Sauer, Philipp Marco Wolfgang (University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)
      Abstract This study in second language acquisition (SLA) investigates the influence of self-portrayal of language learners in an interactive online L2 learning environment from a social-interactionist research perspective. ...
    • Space & Story: Constructing and Communicating Narrative Space in Dungeons and Dragons 

      McNeil, Alison (University of Waterloo, 2023-05-12)
      Designing and communicating spaces is an ever-evolving practice and challenge for the architect who must translate individual and collective experiences of space both to those within the field of architecture, and those ...
    • Space and Particles at the Planck Scale 

      Konopka, Tomasz (University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)
      The aim of this thesis is to summarize some results in two approaches to studying how quantum gravity may be relevant for experiments. The first approach starts off by stating that one of the questions a theory of quantum ...
    • Space Between Lines: Diagrammatic Architecture and 3D Printing 

      Kim, Sung-Jun (University of Waterloo, 2016-09-21)
      All forms of communication require a medium to translate abstract thoughts from the mind to an observable and measurable artifact. Whether it is through body movement, vocalization, drawing, making, or multimedia, all ideas ...
    • Space Efficient Data Structures and Algorithms in the Word-RAM Model 

      El-Zein, Hicham (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)
      In modern computation the volume of data-sets has increased dramatically. Since the majority of these data-sets are stored in internal memory, reducing their storage requirement is an important research topic. One way ...
    • Space-Efficient Data Structures for Information Retrieval 

      Claude, Francisco (University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)
      The amount of data that people and companies store has grown exponentially over the last few years. Storing this information alone is not enough, because in order to make it useful we need to be able to efficiently search ...
    • Space-Efficient Data Structures in the Word-RAM and Bitprobe Models 

      Nicholson, Patrick (University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)
      This thesis studies data structures in the word-RAM and bitprobe models, with an emphasis on space efficiency. In the word-RAM model of computation the space cost of a data structure is measured in terms of the number of ...
    • Space-time hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for free-surface wave problems 

      Sosa Jones, Giselle (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)
      Free-surface problems arise in many real-world applications such as in the design of ships and offshore structures, modeling of tsunamis, and dam breaking. Mathematically, free-surface wave problems are described by a set ...
    • Spacebook: Networked Public Places in the Personalized Metropolis 

      van Leur, Tristan (University of Waterloo, 2016-01-06)
      Today’s society is more connected than ever; we have constant access to information, to communication, and to various forms of social media. Ubiquitous mobile computing has significantly changed the public realm in a way ...
    • Spaceborne monitoring of Arctic lake ice in a changing climate 

      Surdu, Cristina M. (University of Waterloo, 2015-02-19)
      Lake ice phenology (timing of ice-on and ice-off) and thickness are changing in response to generally warmer climate conditions at high northern latitudes observed during recent decades. Monitoring changes in the lake ice ...
    • Spaces for Economic Diversity 

      Zhang, Yuxun Emmeily (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)
      The discipline of architecture operates within the organizing structure of the economy and is directly influenced by its flows and cycles. The fabric of the city is often a product of profit-pursuing goals, resulting in ...
    • Spaces of Production: From the Industrial to the Virtual City 

      Suen, Victoria (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-18)
      In the industrial city, capitalist ownership over the means of production: land, buildings, tools, technology and knowledge, enabled the centralization, control and exploitation of the working class. Monetary exchange, ...
    • A Spacetime Approach to Defining Vacuum States and Entropy 

      Kouchekzadeh Yazdi, Yasaman (University of Waterloo, 2013-05-27)
      We apply a recent proposal for a distinguished ground state of a quantum field in a globally hyperbolic spacetime to the free massless scalar field in a causal diamond in two-dimensional Minkowski space. We investigate the ...
    • Spam Filter Improvement Through Measurement 

      Lynam, Thomas Richard (University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)
      This work supports the thesis that sound quantitative evaluation for spam filters leads to substantial improvement in the classification of email. To this end, new laboratory testing methods and datasets are introduced, ...
    • Spannung zwischen Realität und Fiktion: Die Rolle des Autors in Cornelia Funkes Roman Tintenherz 

      Hasenzahl, Kerstin (University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)
      This thesis explores the tension between fiction and reality in Cornelia Funke’s novel Tintenherz (Inkheart), and the importance of the figure and the function of the author as an influential character of the perception ...
    • Sparse Automatic Sets 

      Albayrak, Seda (University of Waterloo, 2020-11-26)
      The theory of automatic sets and sequences arises naturally in many different areas of mathematics, notably in the study of algebraic power series in positive characteristic, due to work of Christol, and in Derksen's ...

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